Dave Bing's election as Detroit's new mayor may be temporary - since there's yet another election cycle starting in August for a four-year term - but it does give Michigan yet another opportunity to hope that change can come to the nation's 11th-largest city.

The city-suburb war in southeast Michigan is legendary, and we can only hope it will abate over time.

In the meantime, here are some suggestions for Bing from the rest of Michigan:

1. Fight corruption. We all assume it's prevalent and deeply ingrained. It makes us distrust anything coming out of Detroit: Redevelopment, budgets, etc.

2. Then expose the corruption. Show us the paper trail or tell us what went awry. All of the corruption involves a violation of public trust and you need to restore it. Going public will do it. So will admitting mistakes.

3. Extend that to city-wide transparency. Talk about the real problems and real solutions. Show us evidence. Get voices involved from inside the city - and outside. We all have a stake in the outcome, even if the people who elected you live within certain boundaries.

4. Set standards of professionalism - and enforce them. Recent stories about the lack of records in the Detroit pension fund offices are more than alarming - it sounds criminal. No public body can function that way. Don't let anything under your watch go in that direction - and set examples for entities that aren't under your watch but taint Detroit's image at the same time.

5. Get control of Monica Conyers. This may be too much to ask, but she's single-handedly making the city look even more foolish.